USPS Tried to Get Hillary Elected and Violated Federal Law, OSC Concludes

Is it time for the United States Postal Service to request an increase for the price of stamps?
USPS may need to following claims that they violated federal law by utilizing their employees to do union-funded work for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and other Democratic candidates while they were on leave.
While the Democratic Congress has been keeping your focus on “all things Russia” by claiming the Trump administration colluded with Russia, the Office of Special Counsel has been delving into “real” issues and not “fake news.”

An investigation was launched in October after the OSC received a complaint from Ron Johnson, R-Wis.. Johnson is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Johnson received information from a USPS employee who was “concerned that the USPS incurred unnecessary overtime costs improperly coordinated with the National Association of Letter Carriers when it released NALC members for several weeks of “union official” leave without pay to participate in the AFL-CIO’s Labor 2016 program.”
It was the intent of the AFL-CIO, according to the report, to elect Hillary Clinton president and help other pro-worker candidates across the country. Workers accomplished this task through “door-to-door canvassing, phone banks, slate card mailings and other get out the vote efforts.”
The report also concludes that 97 NALC members participated in the NALC campaign and were paid using the Letter Carrier Political Fund which is the union’s PAC.
You may have seen these USPS workers if you were in the battleground states of Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where 82 percent of the campaign work occurred.
And you thought the USPS was just there to deliver your mail. Think again!
The OSC concluded the following:
“USPS Management took official actions to enable NALC’s political activities. These efforts constitute a violation of the Hatch Act.
The Hatch Act is a federal law that limits certain political activities of federal employees.
The law’s purpose is to ensure federal programs are “administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation,” according to the OSC.
The OSC also stated:
“Specifically, USPS’s practice of facilitating carrier releases for the union’s political activity resulted in an institutional bias in favor of all NALC endorsed political candidates, which the Hatch Act prohibits.”

OSC Acting Special Counsel Adam Miles said:
“We concluded that the USPS practice of facilitating and directing carrier releases for the union’s political activity resulted in an institutional bias in favor of NALC’s endorsed political candidates, which the Hatch Act prohibits.
Many would expect the hammer to fall on the USPS and the NALC union who were biased toward a particular political candidate, right? Not as far as the OSC recommendations are concerned.
The OSC seeks agency-wide corrective action and but does not seek to discipline any individual for the violation.
How is this not interference with a political campaign? I know it doesn’t include Russia but shouldn’t we be investigating to see if there was any collusion between the union and the Hillary Clinton campaign?
I’m guessing the democrats would be calling for an investigation if the union had been conducting itself in this manner for the Trump campaign.
Senate Homeland Security Committee was set to hold a hearing Wednesday on the matter.
